Hacker News: ved_a

New comment by ved_a in "Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash"

ved_a — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 05:22:38 +0000

100% this. I have genuinely tried to use Gemini models - tried to pay for them, but its practically impossible to navigate Google Cloud (vertex, antigravity, etc)console to even find where to pay - after great meat proxy efforts, I fix billing issues (or I think I fix them) the model stops working suddenly. Its shocking how bad Google AI has been

New comment by ved_a in "Show HN: DoNotNotify – Log and intelligently block notifications on Android"

ved_a — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 00:57:11 +0000

Ah we live in the same ‘gated’ community and probably are neighbours then ?

New comment by ved_a in "Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2024?"

ved_a — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 14:10:38 +0000

I am so glad to read this comment. Wodehouse is sublime in all what he wrote - if you end up reading Jeeves series, I would recommend Right Ho, Jeeves and Code of Woosters

New comment by ved_a in "Ask HN: Concepts that clicked only years after you first encountered them?"

ved_a — Mon, 02 Jan 2023 03:33:44 +0000

For me, it’s the determinism of nature. The clear hard fact that nothing I can do will impact the pre-determined outcomes. This is cold physics as we know of today. Also, the ‘present’ feeling different from past is just a trick our mind plays on us. This realisation has had profound impact on me - but this dawned on me quite late despite reading a lot on this topic for years.

Ask HN: Best country to educate and raise Neurodivergent kids

ved_a — Sun, 26 Jun 2022 13:10:48 +0000

I am in India now and my son is on spectrum - I would love to know experiences from different countries where education, health care and happiness for neuro-divergent kids on autism spectrum is better supported.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31883570

Points: 8

# Comments: 4

New comment by ved_a in "Mailgun Is Down"

ved_a — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 13:21:36 +0000

SendGrid is up and running, like always :)

SendGird sends 20B emails during Black Friday/Cyber Monday

ved_a — Fri, 03 Dec 2021 22:21:30 +0000

Article URL: https://sendgrid.com/blog/black-friday-cyber-monday-2021/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29436354

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Apple iOS15 changes the way email opens are tracked

ved_a — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 04:54:46 +0000

Article URL: https://sendgrid.com/blog/identify-non-human-opens-apple-mail-privacy-protection/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28613205

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by ved_a in "Ask HN: What are the best books/MooCs to starting on Chess"

ved_a — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 03:08:09 +0000

That is an interesting approach - I found https://www.chesstactics.org/ useful and several Apps (search for Chess King on Android) to practice typical patterns

Ask HN: What are the best books/MooCs to starting on Chess

ved_a — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 15:01:15 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25254394

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by ved_a in "Ask HN: What popular apps were made exclusively with React Native or Flutter?"

ved_a — Sat, 07 Jul 2018 01:56:17 +0000

Myntra (India's largest fashion ecommerce portal) has both the Android and iOS apps built with RN

New comment by ved_a in "Saving Private Flipkart"

ved_a — Tue, 26 Apr 2016 02:39:53 +0000

It is so easy to just throw in some vague ideas without any substantial data behind it. A more logical and researched answer to this article is - https://medium.com/@sumanthr/why-private-flipkart-doesn-t-ne...

New comment by ved_a in "India students caught 'cheating' in exams in Bihar"

ved_a — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 12:10:39 +0000

Sigh. Unleash the troll.

New comment by ved_a in "Facebook was down"

ved_a — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 06:41:11 +0000

Yes (from India)

New comment by ved_a in "Mangalyaan, India’s First Mars Mission"

ved_a — Tue, 05 Nov 2013 09:05:56 +0000

Faster streaming at - http://spaceflightnow.com/pslv/c25/status.html

Ask HN: Why Erlang never got the mainstream status?

ved_a — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 13:47:56 +0000

Erlang is a twenty-five-year-old programming language that has yet to win a popularity contest but has won many a hearts with its ability to do things just right. Erlang has got almost everything right - concurrency, functional programming, Garbage Collection, Network I/O, etc. Still, Erlang never got the mainstream popularity and widespread acceptance it always deserved. I wonder what might be the reasons

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5819349

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by ved_a in "Twitter Music App Goes Live Today"

ved_a — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:41:40 +0000

Not live. Techcruch did not get paid properly I guess

New comment by ved_a in "LinkedIn's Down"

ved_a — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 13:25:05 +0000

Tomcat? hmm..

New comment by ved_a in "What Is Java, Is It Insecure, and Should I Use It?"

ved_a — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 17:16:46 +0000

Wow- when a lifehacker(finest resource of everything computer science) page hits Hacker News Front Page.

New comment by ved_a in "Gmail.com was down"

ved_a — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 16:57:24 +0000

Chrome crashing due to failed sync problems with google servers and gmail is down.